Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-04-21
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ever oecn manufactured In japan.
ink Santa Barbara (Cl,l.) hot sulphur
springs have been sold for siOO. 200
| Is estimated that over 10000 Montana
snecp frozc to death the past winter.
TRENTON, N. j., has elected it's frs, Re.
publican mayor in twenty-five wears.
~ all the gas IL taken from the bowel.
Oh the earth won't the surface cave iui
| IsE President appointed Benton J. Hall,
OF Iowa, 10 be Commissioner of Patents.
ihE He'll telephone has l4.ls5 miles of
@ alne and Its earnings for 1886 were Saca7..
| tENrhAL SHERIDAN has taken 10 the use
OIL indian clubs TO reduce his increasing
/ hesh. = "''''s
ONE firm of envelope manufacturers in
| London is said TO make 1900, 600 envelopes.
day.
IHE U. ;. wooden war ships Shenandoah
and Lackawanna will be sold at public
auction.
EGYPT, England, France, Germany ans
Russia, are neck deep in annoying compli.
| cations.
NEw YoRK recently appropriated half
million dollars for the Improvement OF the
State canal
THEY allow no marrying in haste In
Japan III takes three weeks TO perform
the ceremony.
MrRAILLEUsE is being tried in the Aus.
,rian army which will fire 1900 bullets in
| ninety seconds
An Eastern man is trying TO raise .
breed Of turkeys with four legs for Thanks.
giving purposes
THE Car ia reported as saving he 1.
quite prepared TO fight but doesn't think
he'll 90 TO war this wear
THE reports as TO the Presidents poor
health have resulted In flooding the White
House with patent medicine advertise
ments.
UNDER the localcoutrol law OF Missis
sippi, only thirty-seven out OF the seventy
four counties in that State can now sell
whisky.
THERE are sill remaining in Missouri
l,o55, ,405 acres OF United States lands sub
Iect to homestead entry and purchase nj
sl.25 per acre.
The use OF opium. morphine, cocaine
and narcotics generally by persons of deli.
cate organization is alarmngly large in
New York City.
CoUSr VoS MoLrKE is the oldest member
OF the German Reichstag, though twenty.
TOUR OF his colleagues are more than
seventy years old
The students Of the College OF Physi.
clans and Surgeons OF New York hack in
pieces more than three hundred dead hu
man bodies each year.
EASTER Sunday came in on an earth
quake at Charleston, y. &. Chui IN at
tendance was light in consequences, people
preferring the open air.
A NAN in burlington, VT. kissed
strange woman at the depot In place Of
his sister aud ahQ 4.
six dollars 70 settle the case
PRETTY soon the question will be no,
what Indiana towns are boring for gas, but
what towns have not struck IT, Appar.
emily they are all in the belt.
MICHAEL DAvIrT and wife were pre
sented with furnished cottage on Xiii
ney bay as wedding present The do
nors were Irish aud American.
THE Grand Army OF the Republic is to
hold a patriotic feast in all its posts April
"a, and take steps TO raise the fund for
memorial 10 Grant AZ Washington.
mEssRs. CHEW, Swallow and Hunger.
ing were recently guests at San Fran.
cisco hotel, while Messrs. Fish, Bacon,
Plumb and Cooke were located az another
house.
NOVELTY In flowers. mentioned by
Hover grower, is the 'smOOn flower
blooming at night or on dull DAYS. and
growing faster than even the morning
glory.
A Doo in Black River Falls, Wis. com.
mitted suicide. He swan into the middle
Of the river gave a long howl, dived. and
made no attempt to get his head above
water
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD is short and stout.
fond OF riding, yachting and other out.
door recreations, and an attendant upon
the services Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
CALUoRNn first attained fame as land
Of gold; then as a land Of wheat: and
now the Navy Department says she makes
steel which Is equal 10 any that the world
produces.
CLERK MIcoU, of Essex County, We has
been in his ONCE as deputy aud principal
clerk for sixty light years He is eighty
years old now aud Is candidate for re-.
election In May
COLLECTING silver spoons in Europe IL
the latest craze among American ladies'
They buy = different shaped spoon iu each
chief city, and have the name OF tho place
engraved on the bowl
AT least two women have turned up who
profess 70 be convinced that Colonel VIM
man who married them many Years ago
and then deserted them
AT q recent legislative reunion in Maine
Hannibal Hamlin, who will be seventy
nine In August participated IN every dance
and escorted home In the morning the
prcttiest girl IN the room
A cLUB Of girls IN Dorsetshire, England,
are under VOWS 70 make their own clothes
and never 10 allow a servant 70 make their
beds or dust their drawing-rooms.
THE statue Of Francis Scott Key, 10 bs
erected in San Francisco, is fifty feet high
81. BOUIs claims that Grand avenue,
with its contemplated improvements, will
be the finest drive ia the world n IL
fourteen miles IN length, and in width
from eighty 70 one hundred and twenty
feet
THN Empress Augusta gives every
woman servant in Prussia, who completes
her fortieth year OF unbrOken service in
one family, a gold cross aud diploma,
bearing the imperial autograph signature.
In eight years she has honored ,s59 serv
ents.